kind which enables one to sit without mortification among the
lowly, without self-consciousness among the great--these are
some of the gifts which enabled her to do just the work she
did, at the time when just that contribution to the permanence
and dignity of Wellesley was so essential.

Miss Freeman's work we may characterize as, in its nature,
extensive. Miss Shafer's was intensive. The scholar and the
administrator were united in her personality, but the scholar
led. The crowning achievement of her administration was what was
then called "the new curriculum."

In the college calendars from 1876 to 1879, we find as many as
seven courses of study outlined. There was a General Course for
which the degree of B.A. was granted, with summa cum laude for
special distinction in scholarship. There were the courses for
Honors, in Classics, Mathematics, Modern Languages, and Science;
and students doing suitable work in them could be recommended for
the degree. These elective courses made a good showing on paper;
but it seems to have been possible to complete them by a minimum
of study. There were also courses in Music and Art, extending
over a period of five years instead of the ordinary four allotted
to the General Course. Under Miss Freeman, the courses for Honors
disappeared, and instead of the General Course there were substituted
the Classical Course, with Greek as an entrance requirement and
the degree of B.A. as its goal; and the Scientific Course, in which
knowledge of French or German was substituted for Greek at entrance,
and Mathematics was required through the sophomore year. The
student who completed this course received the degree of B.S.

The "new curriculum" substituted for the two courses, Classical
and Scientific, hitherto offered, a single course leading to the
degree of B.A. As Miss Shafer explains in her report to the
trustees for the year 1892-1893: "Thus we cease to confer the
B.S. for a course not essentially scientific, and incapable of
becoming scientific under existing circumstances, and we offer
a course broad and strong, containing, as we believe, all the
elements, educational and disciplinary, which should pertain to
a course in liberal arts."

Further modifications of the elective system were introduced
in a later administration, but the "new curriculum" continues to
be the basis of Wellesley's academic instruction.

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